Angeliki Ploka

Greek choral conductor Angeliki Ploka has worked with ensembles and choirs in Greece, Hungary, Spain and the Netherlands. At home in Holland, she is the artistic director of Leiderdorps Kamerkoor and Kamerkoor Lux. She is a member of TENSO’s team of young conductors and has worked with Cappella Amsterdam, Helsinki Chamber Choir and The Norwegian Soloist Choir.

In 2020 Angeliki became the chief conductor of the Greek Radio Choir and for two seasons she presented innovative programming and unique performances with the ensemble. Within the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, she created unprecedented opportunities for the choir both in live performances and in recordings for radio and television. Highlights included a Greek Christmas concert presented by EBU on Euroradio Christmas Music Day with a program that included several premieres of newly commissioned pieces, three concerts recorded live at Megaron Athens Concert Hall and in the historic monument of Rotonda in Thessaloniki, and a televised series called One Minute of Music featuring several videos of a cappella pieces the choir recorded in site-specific venues across Athens.

Angeliki is on faculty at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and at the School for Young Talent of the same institution teaching music theory, aural skills, analysis and choir. She applies the principles of Zoltán Kodály’s philosophy in her teaching. Her experience working with young singers also led to a collaboration with the Nationale Koren in the Netherlands. Angeliki sits on juries at choral festivals and competitions and is regularly invited to lead masterclasses and workshops on choral conducting, singing and music pedagogy across Europe.

As a singer, Angeliki has sung in productions with the Dutch Radio Choir, Meesters & Gezellen, and Orkest de Ereprijs under such conductors as Daniel Reuss, Sigvards Klava, Michael Gläser and Bernard Haitink.

Angeliki studied singing, choral conducting, pedagogy and musicology at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (NL), the Liszt Academy of Music (HU) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR). She also holds diplomas in piano and music theory and was the recipient of the Sarolta Kodály Scholarship (International Kodály Society), the Α. Onassis, and the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece.